Sen. Mark Kirk’s stroke of awareness

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Aug 29, 2013 at 5:05 PM

In THIS PIECE by Daniel Gross about Republicans and health-care reform, there’s a telling passage regarding the junior U.S. senator from Illinois:

In the old days, they used to say that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. When it comes to health insurance, it seems a liberal is a conservative who has been mugged by an illness. After having a devastating stroke in 2012, Sen. Mark Kirk had an epiphany about the inadequacy of rehabilitation services for poor people. “My concern is what happens if you have a stroke and you’re not in the U.S. ...

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Pat Cunningham

In THIS PIECE by Daniel Gross about Republicans and health-care reform, there’s a telling passage regarding the junior U.S. senator from Illinois:

In the old days, they used to say that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality. When it comes to health insurance, it seems a liberal is a conservative who has been mugged by an illness. After having a devastating stroke in 2012, Sen. Mark Kirk had an epiphany about the inadequacy of rehabilitation services for poor people. “My concern is what happens if you have a stroke and you’re not in the U.S. ...